Oak Park River Forest High School students are loved, confident, beautiful, mature, stylish and talented, or at least that's what they're telling each other on a new Facebook page devoted to compliments.

The Facebook page, called simply "OPRF compliments," popped up Jan. 15, and has so far has featured more than 2,000 uplifting and flattering notes, delivered anonymously, to OPRF students.

"It's being run by students," said Karin Sullivan, the school's communications director.

However, school administrators and others don't know which students are involved.

A spokesperson for the page said anonymously via a Facebook message that five female seniors are moderating the page.

The anonymous nature doesn't bother administrators.

"From our perspective it's wonderful. It's wonderful to see students take the initiative to use Facebook in such a positive way," Sullivan said.

Sophomore Georgi Beck, who has traded compliments with friends on the page, said she thinks it is "actually changing the people around the school."

"It's not every day that someone comes up to you and says a nice thing," she said. "…It feels actually really great."

The page has so far been obscenity-free and successful enough that it even gained a mention on the high school's official Facebook page, operated by Sullivan.

Users of the compliments page must abide by strict rules imposed and enforced by its moderators. When a commenter submits a compliment through an anonymous Google docs form, it can't contain obscenities or "offensive terminology" to get published, the page moderators said in an interview conducted via Facebook message.

"If you can't say anything nice, don't say it at all! This is for COMPLIMENTS only, so if you have a bone to pick with someone, this is not the outlet," reads one of the rules on the page.

The compliments range from accolades to the school's show choir for its "awesomeness" at a recent performance, to wishing individually named students success at college. One recent comment calls a male student "the nicest guy in the world."

"The feedback I'm hearing is that students just love it. It makes their day to see these compliments," said Sullivan, while praising those keeping the page clean. "They're really working hard to keep it very positive and uplifting."

The idea is borrowed. One of the moderators saw a similar effort at other schools, the anonymous spokesperson said via Facebook message.

"Positivity is something that really needs to be spread around when bullying is so prevalent in high school. We just thought it would help the students in our school realize that we do have positive things to say rather than negative," the spokesperson wrote.

Student Council President Steven Piper said the page has "had a huge impact on the school."

"When it first came out, it was the buzz at school. Everyone was talking about it. Every lunch conversation involved OPRF compliments," said Piper, a senior.

The page's popularity "shines a bright light" on the school, especially after some past "notorious" events involving students, he said, referring to an incident in 2011 in which a male student circulated on Facebook and around the school a list ranking 50 female students, using racial slurs and commenting on body parts.

"This shows other people that there are actually good people at this school," Piper said.

Piper assures students that neither he nor student council is behind the creation of the page, and he also doesn't know which of peers are its operators.

Sophomore Molly Babuk, who also uses the page, said she often she can guess who sent her a compliment, but it's fun and "uplifting" to get sweet notes anonymously.

"I just want to say if schools all across the country could do this, I feel like kids would be so much happier," Babuk said.